Danielle

“the most common approach to curriculum design is to address the needs of the so-called “average student.” Of course this average student is a myth, a statistical artifact not corresponding to any actual individual. But because so much of the curriculum and teaching methods employed in most schools are based on the needs of this mythical average student, they are also laden with inadvertent and unnecessary barriers to learning.”
― Anne Meyer, Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice

“Today, the public mindset is beginning to shift away from a medical model of disability towards a recognition that context and self-awareness as a learner both play a huge role in whether any given condition is disabling or not.10”
― Anne Meyer, Universal Design for Learning: Theory and Practice

“There is no progress or accomplishment without sacrifice.”
― Idowu Koyenikan, Wealth for All: Living a Life of Success at the Edge of Your Ability

“A funny thing happens when more than one knitter gathers in a public place. A solo knitter, presuming she is a woman, quickly fades into the backdrop like a potted palm or a quietly nursing mother. ... A single knitter is shorthand for "nothing to see here, move on."

But when knitters gather, we become incongruously conspicuous. We are a species that other people aren't used to seeing in flocks, like a cluster of Corgis, a dozen Elvis impersonators waiting for the elevator.”
― Clara Parkes, Knitlandia: A Knitter Sees the World